One Marriage Under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America

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| 247 Abortion, 34, 124 Abstinence education, 124–25, 127, 133, 161, 221n23; federal funding for, 126, 130 Abuse, 9, 102, 121; drug, 24, 41, 93, 94, 100; emotional, 62, 100; of women, 100–101 Accountability, 66, 184; fatherhood, 158, 161 ADC. See Aid to Dependent Children Administration for Native Americans (ANA), 156–57, 160, 188; grant awards, 222n7 Adoption, law, 26 AFDC. See Aid to Families of Dependent Children African American (community): “behavior ,” 88, 187; citizenship and poor, 86, 88; ‘deviant’ behavior, 86, 89–90; family, 6, 13, 73, 74, 87, 88, 179, 186; lack of focus on, 83–84; marginalization of, 85; marriage education workshops for, 74, 78, 82–86; out-of-wedlock birth, 87; poverty rates, 82, 186; single mothers, 5, 6, 72, 82, 177; stereotype of, single mother, 32, 88; unemployment, 87; welfare benefits and poor, women, 85–86, 87 African American Healthy Marriage Initiative , 83 Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), 6, 86, 87 Aid to Families of Dependent Children (AFDC), 6, 87 Alan Guttmacher Institute, 124, 126 Alger, Horatio, 69, 73, 189 American identity, 16, 69, 73, 177, 184, 206n27, 213n28, 224n8; American dream and, 5, 15, 94, 175, 188; conservative Christians and, 29–31, 33–34; family and, 10, 12–13, 15; marriage and, 17, 21, 28, 178, 179, 183, 187; marriage ideology and, 155; marriage promotion restoring, 33–41; mythical, 28–29, 31, 149, 183 American liberalism, 206n27, 210n83, 224n8 ANA. See Administration for Native Americans Andersen, Robert, 180 And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes (Debo), 156 Anoatubby, Bill, 158, 161–62 Antipoverty, xii, 184–85; advocates, 95, 101; marriage promotion as, strategy, 3, 7, 8, 9, 19, 36, 71–73, 89, 94, 186, 192, 208n50; policy, 72 Baptist General Convention, 26, 28, 29, 30, 34 Barton, David, 31 Beaumont, Sam, 21 Becoming Soul Mates (Parrott, Parrott), 36 Behavior: African American, 88, 187; “deviant ” African American, 86, 89–90; marriage education workshops and, change, 91, 94, 98; modified, 98; morality and, 93, 152; patterns, 47, 48–49, 76. See also Sexual behavior Bellah, Robert N., 16 Bible Belt states, 25, 75, 194, 212n13 Birch, Elizabeth, 26 Blankenhorn, David, 1, 7, 10, 24, 34, 175–76, 195, 224n4 Boo, Katherine, 71, 72–73, 82 Boston Globe, 25, 29 Index 248 | Index Boundary work, 10, 16, 21–22, 51, 60, 187, 188–89, 201; class, 17, 33, 82, 86, 183–86; gender hierarchy and, 53–54, 63, 69; heterosexuality and, 45, 172; heterosexual marriage and, 5, 10, 17, 40, 41, 50–51, 60, 69, 91, 95, 121–22, 148–49, 169, 177; lesbian, gay and, 112, 120, 178–82; marriage gap and, 73; outsider status and, 16–17, 22, 32, 41, 69, 71, 142, 148–49, 153, 177–78, 182–83; race, 17, 33, 82, 86, 90, 155, 174, 186–87; of religious right, 24, 25, 29, 31, 33; us/them language and, 12, 16, 67, 92, 177, 198 Bourgeois normality, 5, 15, 175 Bradbury, Thomas, 189, 190 Breines, Wini, 141–42 Brookings Institute, 94, 97, 186 Brothers, Corean, 82 Brown, Brian J., 9 Brownback, Sam, 8 Building Better Marriages in Oklahoma (Parrott, Parrott), 36 Building Strong Families (BSF), 189–91 Burbridge Foundation, 34 Bush, George W., 3, 4, 37, 139, 156, 159, 210n85, 214n45 California, 175 Canada, 5, 6, 30–31, 123 Capitalism, 16, 24, 155, 158, 175; free-market , 10, 12, 15, 17, 34, 184, 218n43 Caputi, Mary, 12, 29, 43 Carter, Jimmy, 5 Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), 8–9, 34, 76, 94 Change: of behavior, 91, 94, 98; fear of, 16–17, 33; in marriage, 4, 6, 11, 183; in sexual culture, 124–25, 178; in society, xiii, 13, 16–17, 33, 124, 125, 142, 148 Cherlin, Andrew, 24, 76, 217n19 Cherokee Nation, 156, 166; family structure , 167; law, 169–70, 171; racial politics, 167, 223n39; same-sex marriage, 152, 168–71, 173–74, 179 Chickasaw Nation, 152, 200; government, 157–58; grant for, 158–59; marriage education workshops for, 20, 38, 164–65; marriage promotion, 156–66; PREP for, 160–61 Child care, 9, 90, 94, 103, 194; subsidies, 96 Child Protective Services, 101 Children/Childhood outcome, 13, 24, 25, 40, 89, 175, 176, 184, 192, 217n19; adoption law, 26; aid to, 86; family structure and, 13, 76; low-income single mothers and, 71, 72; marriage education workshops and, 113–15; marriage promotion and, 76; poverty and, 7, 8, 9, 76; psychological distress and, 76; stayat -home mother and, 86, 87; welfare program...